Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Could Ethereal monitor bad-packet COUNTS in linux?
This is an almost-dupe posting... I apparently posted this the
first time before my subscription was "approved"; looks like it
didn't get out there...
We have several LAN issues that could be resolved if we could
integrate bad-packet errors (collisions, etc) with ethereal
tracing. Thus, the following question:
I realize that Ethereal cannot normally track actual bad packets,
since device drivers and OS' do not pass them on.
However, at least on Linux, the OS keeps driver-level counts of
collisions etc., e.g. in /proc/net/dev -- I suspect the same is
true in Windows.
Is it possible, (and has anyone attempted) to monitor these bad-
packet counts, and record "virtual bad packets" in the ethereal
data stream when bad data is detected?
We wouldn't get to see the actual bad data, but that's far less
valuable (since the data is bad anyway) than seeing the timing and
existence of bad data.
It seems that with this capacity, it would be MUCH easier to
detect and debug network problems.
Thanks,
Pete
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